Editorial »

How to use the word hardest-hit in a Sentence?

Sample usage from literary quotes and the newswire.

Filter by category:

18 results found

Any key academic measure falling is bad news. Third-grade literacy falling is catastrophic both nationally and individually.And as has always been the case, when schools fail, the groups that are the hardest hit are those already at highest risk.

Said Bennett

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I think, unfortunately, across the country generally, but especially in communities that are hardest hit by high homicide rates, there is this hopelessness that there's really nothing that can be done and that it is this chronic problem that is beyond sort of solving, fortunately, that's not the case.

Thomas Abt

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

A $15 federal minimum wage would be devastating for our hardest-hit small businesses at a time when they can least afford it, we should not have a one-size-fits-all policy set by Washington politicians.

Joni Ernst

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Instead, we need to help those hardest-hit by the pandemic get through the next six to nine months until this public health crisis passes. Then we can get the economy going again.

John Friedman

Found on CNN
3 years ago

If you look beneath the surface, you see a tale of two consumers, those in the hardest-hit industries who have lost their jobs, those are the folks who are really struggling. The other side of the equation is the people who can work from home. Our lives haven't been completely disrupted.

Lindsey Bell

Found on CNN
3 years ago

New York, the hardest-hit state in the nation with more than 320,000 cases, is allowingactivities to occur in the states marinas and boatyards. On Wednesday, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo noted that nearly 1,300 COVID-19 patients that were admitted to hospitals in the last few days were from people out of the workforce and abiding by stay-at-home orders. Overwhelmingly, the people were at home.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

For now the banks are not the hardest hit, i don't think we should now say the next step would be to have the same programme for the banks.

Volker Wieland

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

In the city of Wuhan after one month since the adoption of the lockdown policy, we see a decreasing trend from the peak of the disease, here in Milan, the hardest-hit area by Covid-19, there isn't a very strict lockdown : public transportation is still working and people are still moving around, you're still having dinners and parties in the hotels and you're not wearing masks.

Sun Shuopeng

Found on CNN
4 years ago

In the city of Wuhan after one month since the adoption of the lockdown policy, we see a decreasing trend from the peak of the disease, here in Milan, the hardest hit area by Covid-19, there isn't a very strict lockdown : public transportation is still working and people are still moving around, you're still having dinners and parties in the hotels and you're not wearing masks. We need every citizen to be involved in the fight of Covid-19 and follow this policy.

Sun Shuopeng

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I have traveled to some of the areas hardest hit by drug abuse and I have seen the devastating effects that this crisis has on families and children.

Melania Trump

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I am bummed out that he is threatening the health care that the people who are hardest hit, the people who are hardest hit are his voters, the people who are hardest hit by this epidemic are his voters.

Dean Lemrire

Found on CNN
6 years ago

If he had really asked and listened to anybody close to the issue, they would tell him that he has done everything wrong so far, i am bummed out. I am bummed out that he is threatening the health care that the people who are hardest hit.

Dean Lemrire

Found on CNN
6 years ago

We announce we are entering those municipalities hardest hit by violence, it's a huge challenge in terms of restitution and we will do justice in the heart of areas where people were forced to abandon their lands and were dispossessed of their lands by the FARC.

Ricardo Sabogal

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

UK construction has been one of the hardest hit sectors following the Brexit result, the rise in uncertainty will have led to a steep slowdown in investment activity and so, in the short term at least, UK construction will feel some pain.

Julie Palmer

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

There is a highly uneven distribution of resources across trauma hospitals in Syria and more work needs to be done to help target support to areas that are hardest hit.

Hani Mowafi

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The event is ongoing, but given under-insurance or a lack of any ... flood insurance across some of the hardest-hit areas in Missouri and Illinois, much of the flood loss is not expected to be covered by insurance.

Steve Bowen

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Thanks to more flexible working patterns, many office-based staff may have had the option to work from home yesterday, lessening the impact on their employer, however, it stands to reason that the service industries, restaurants, cafes, event spaces in particular, and those that rely on foot traffic, like retail, will have been hardest hit as they faced a city with fewer workers and most likely a significant drop in trade.

Sean McKee

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

After touring some of the hardest hit areas in the state this week, it is noticeable that we will see considerably lower crop yields in those areas this year.

Agriculture Director Philip Nelson

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Discuss these sample sentences with the community:

0 Comments

    Are we missing a good definition for hardest-hit? Don't keep it to yourself...

    Word of the Day

    Would you like us to send you a FREE new word definition delivered to your inbox daily?

    Please enter your email address:



    Free, no signup required:

    Add to Chrome

    Get instant definitions for any word that hits you anywhere on the web!

    Free, no signup required:

    Add to Firefox

    Get instant definitions for any word that hits you anywhere on the web!

    Browse Definitions.net

    Quiz

    Are you a words master?

    »
    formal separation from an alliance or federation
    A secession
    B peccadillo
    C jab
    D elation